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<p>Minimum qualifications:</p><ul>
<li>2 years of experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research or related fields</li><li>Experience with morphology, syntax, semantics and/or discourse</li><li>Experience with experimental design, research methodologies, qualitative and quantitative analysis</li></ul><br/>
<p>Preferred qualifications:</p><ul>
<li>Independent worker with the ability to effectively operate with flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment</li><li>Team player with exceptional interpersonal skills and a solution-oriented attitude</li></ul><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About the job</b></h2><p>
Analytical Linguists work across Google to drive improvements in quality, classification, information structure, and natural language understanding and generation. As an Analytical Linguist you will work both on complex projects spanning multiple products, groups, and disciplines, and on tightly focused efforts to produce specific product components or answer specific research questions. Analytical Linguists work in many different areas and arrive with a wide variety of skills—your specialization might involve natural language processing and understanding, phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, ontology, program management, human subject research, experimental design, statistics, corpus linguistics, large scale data acquisition, or any combination. This team is part of some of the most groundbreaking and exciting work at Google. It's our goal to use insights from linguistics and related fields to constantly improve our products.</p>
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Understanding natural language is at the core of Google's technologies. The Natural Language Understanding (NLU) team at Google guides, builds and innovates methodologies around semantic analysis and representation, syntactic parsing and realization, morphology and lexicon development. Our work directly impacts the Assistant, Search, Knowledge Graph and Google Translate, as well as other machine intelligence research.</p>
<p>You will help create the toolkits and infrastructure to build conversational voice interfaces and hybrid VUI/GUIs. You will also improve our ability to model language, infer user's intents, have robust conversations and generate fluent responses while preparing for the next generation of machine learning and language understanding technologies.</p><p>
Google aims to build products that organize the world's information and make it universally accessible to our users. As a Analytical Linguist at Google, you could be working on new technologies, platforms, consumer facing products, and/or enterprise systems. The end goal will be to match you with the team that best aligns with your interests, experience, and where you will have the most impact.</p></div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Responsibilities</b></h2><ul>
<li>Extend or design linguistic frameworks and semantic representations to support richer models of language use (e.g., incorporating frame semantics, the syntax/semantics interface, discourse and pragmatics, etc.)</li><li>Work closely with engineers and researchers by providing linguistic expertise and direction for language specific NLP and/or dialogue analysis/modeling</li><li>Train and/or evaluate NLP or dialogue systems, identify errors/regressions and propose solutions</li><li>Propose and run research experiments around linguistic phenomena</li></ul></div>At Google, we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.</body>
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